Doctors Petition Gordon Brown To Honour Contract Deal, UK
July 3, 2007 – 1:08 pm | posted in Public HealthBMA leaders will deliver a petition with nearly 4,500 signatures to the Prime Minister today [Tuesday 3 July] calling on the Government to approve contract proposals for staff and associate specialist [SAS] doctors so that the contract can go out to ballot.
In November 2006, the negotiated NHS Contract went to health ministers and the Public Sector Pay Committee for clearance so that the BMA could ballot SAS doctors on the new contract’s acceptability. So far that clearance has not been given and the ballot is blocked.
Mr Mohib Khan, Chairman of the BMA’s SAS Committee, said today:
“SAS doctors are vital to the NHS and we spend almost 100% of our time delivering direct clinical care. There are around 12,500 of us in the UK and yet most people are unaware of our existence. All other groups of UK doctors, GPs, consultants and juniors have had their new contracts and yet we have been left, demoralised and frustrated. The new Prime Minister can show he values us by unblocking the contract deal and giving us the chance to vote on it.”
11.30am Six representatives from the BMA will deliver the petition to Number 10 Downing Street. The representatives include Mr Mohib Khan and the BMA’s new Chairman, Dr Hamish Meldrum.
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